Near-Infrared Photometry of the Galactic Globular Cluster M30

My Master project was focussed on NIR (J, Ks) photometry of the metal-poor Galactic globular cluster M30. This cluster is a severe benchmark for ground-based Adaptive Optics (AO) systems, since it is a core collapsed cluster. I pre-reduced and reduced more than 300 images collected with both seeing limited detectors (SOFI@NTT, HAWK-I@VLT) and with an AO system (MAD@VLT). Finally, I investigated the RGB bump position of M30 and I found a stark discrepancy between theory and observations. This trend becomes more evident when moving into the low-metallicity regime.